Norwich City yesterday became the latest high-profile casualty to be thrown to the Lions this season, losing for the third time in their past 27 matches

Millwall 2 Norwich 1

Norwich City yesterday became the latest high-profile casualty to be thrown to
the Lions this season, losing for just the third time in their past 27
league matches to an industrious and highly-charged Millwall outfit.

Of the current top ten in the League One table, the previously in-form
Canaries are now the sixth team to have succumbed in this particular part of
south London and are only fortunate that the short-term ramifications of
this defeat were not fully punished – the nearest contenders Leeds United
could only reduce the deficit at the summit by one point following their
draw away to Hartlepool United.

Indeed, when you analyse their results, this was Norwich’s first defeat in the
division since mid-October, surely just a blip en route to the open-bus
parade in May. That is how manager Paul Lambert saw it. “One defeat in
nearly four months – I would